Sanja Petrovic: Conference Papers

Mishra N, Petrovic S, Sundar S, A Knowledge-light Nonlinear Case-based Reasoning Approach to Radiotherapy Planning, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2009, November 2-5, 2009, Newark USA, 776-783.

Jagannathan R, Petrovic S. Dealing with Missing Values in a Clinical Case-Based Reasoning System, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009, August 8-11, 2009, Beijing, China, pp. 120-124.

Petrovic D, Morshed M, and Petrovic S, Genetic Algorithm Based Scheduling of Radiotherapy Treatments for Cancer Patients, in C.Combi, Y.Shahar, A.Abu-Hanna (Eds.) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5651, Springer,2009, pp.101-105.

Ouelhadj D., and Petrovic S., Asynchronous Cooperative Hyper-Heuristic Search, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 09 , Las Vegas , USA , July 13-16, 2009.

Ochoa G, Vázquez-Rodríguez J.A., Petrovic S., Burke E. (2008), Dispatching Rules for Production Scheduling: a Hyper-heuristic Landscape Analysis , accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC09) , IEEE Press, Trondheim , Norway , May 18-21, 2009.

Petrovic, S., Leite Rocha, P., Constructive Approaches to Radiotherapy Scheduling, in S. I. Ao, C. Douglas, W. S. Grundfest, L. Schruben and J. Burgstone (Eds.) Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS'08) , San Francisco, USA, October 22-24, 2008, pp. 722-727.
This paper got Certificate of Merit at the International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Robotics 2008 which is a part of WCECS.

Ouelhadj, D., Petrovic, S., A Cooperative Distributed Hyper-heuristic Framework for Scheduling, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2008), Singapore, 12 - 15 October 2008, 2560-2565.

Petrovic, S., Vanden Berghe, G., Comparison of Algorithms for Nurse Rostering Problems, in E.Burke, M. Gendreau, (Eds.), Procedings of the 7th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling – PATAT 2008, Montreal, Canada, August 18-22, 2008, pp 1-18.

Moratori, P., Petrovic, S., and Vasquez, A., Match-up Strategies for Job Shop Rescheduling, in N.T. Nguyen, L. Borzemski, A. Grzech, and M. Ali (Eds.) New Frontiers in Applied Artificial Intelligence , Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5027, Springer, 2008, pp. 119-128.
The paper got award as the best paper at the 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems ( IEA\AIE) 2008.

Petrovic, S., “Towards the Benchmarks for Scheduling Problems”, Proceedings of the Workshop "Scheduling a Scheduling Competition" held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS '07), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September 22-26, 2007. http://icaps07.icaps-conference.org/

Vazquez Rodriguez J. A., Petrovic S., and Salhi A. "An Investigation of Hyper-heuristic Search Spaces", Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, Singapore, September 25-28, 2007, pp. 3776-3783.

Vazquez Rodriguez J. A., Petrovic S., and Salhi A. "A Combined Meta-Heuristic with Hyper-Heuristic Approach to the Scheduling of the Hybrid Flow Shop with Sequence Dependent Setup Times and Uniform Machines", in Baptiste P., Kendall G., Munier A., and Sourd F. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications, MISTA 2007, Paris, France, August 28-31, 2007, pp. 506-513.

Song, X., Petrovic, S., Sundar, S. “A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Dose Planning in Radiotherapy”, in D.Wilson, D.Khemani (Eds.) Workshop Proceedings, The Seventh International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR'07, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 13-16, 2007, pp. 348-357.

Petrovic,S., Leung,W., Song,X., and Sundar,S., "Algorithms for radiotherapy treatment booking", in R.Qu (Ed) Proceedings of the 25th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG'2006) , Nottingham, UK, 14-15th December 2006, pp. 105-112.

Montgomery, J., Fayad, C., Petrovic, S., “Solution Representation for Job Shop Scheduling Problems in Ant Colony Optimisation”, in M.Dorigo, L.M.Gambardella, M.Birattari, M.Martinoli, R.Poli, T.Stutzle. (Eds.) ANTS 2006 , Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4150, Brussels, Belgium, September 4-7, 2006, pp. 484-491.

Song, X., Petrovic, S., “A Fuzzy Approach to Capacitated Flow Shop Scheduling”, Proceedings of the 11th International conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems (IPMU), Paris, France, July 2-7, 2006, pp. 486-493.

Petrovic, S., Fayad, C., “A Genetic Algorithm for Job shop Scheduling with Load Balancing” in: S.Zhang, R.Jarvis (Eds.), AI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3809, Springer, 2005, pp. 339-348.

Duenas,A., Petrovic, D., Petrovic, S. “Analysis of Performance of Fuzzy Logic-Based Production Scheduling by Simulation”, in: A.Gelbukh, a. de Albornoz, H., Terashima-Marin (Eds.), MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Inteligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 3789, Springer, 2005, 234-243.

Petrovic, S., Fayad, C., Petrovic, D., “Job Shop Scheduling with Lot-sizing and Batching in an Uncertain Real-world Environment”, in: G.Kendall, L.Lei, M.Pinedo (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2005) , New York, USA, July 18-21, 2005, pp. 363-379.

Song, X., Petrovic, S., “Handling Fuzzy Constraints in Flow Shop Problem”, in B.De Baets, J.Fodor, D.Radojevic (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Meeting of the EURO Working group on Fuzzy Sets - EUROFUSE 2005, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, June 15-18, 2005, pp. 235-244.

Petrovic, S., Yang Y., Dror, M.: Case-based Initialisation of Metaheuristics for Examination Timetabling. In G.Kendall, E.Burke, S.Petrovic, M.Gendreau (eds.): Multidisciplinary Scheduling Theory and Applications , Springer (2005), pp. 289-308.
The original paper appears in: G.Kendall, E.Burke, S.Petrovic (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003) , Nottingham, 13-16 August 2003, pp. 137-154.

Fayad, C., Petrovic, S., ”A Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm for Real-World Job-Shop Scheduling”, in M.Ali, F.Esposito, (Eds.), Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3533, Springer, 2005, pp. 524-533.

Petrovic, S., Patel, V., Yong, Y., “University Timetabling with Fuzzy Constraints”, in E.Burke, M.Trick, (Eds.), Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling V, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3616, Springer, 2005, pp.313-333 .

Yong Y., Petrovic, S., "A Novel Similarity Measure for Heuristic Selection in Examination Timetabling", in E.Burke, M.Trick, (Eds.), Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling V, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3616, Springer, 2005, pp.247-269 .
The first version of the paper is published in the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2004) , Pittsburgh, USA, August 18-20, 2004, pp 377-396.

Song, X., Petrovic, S., "Ranking of Makespans in Flow Shop Problems with Fuzzy Processing Times", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC2004), Nottingham, UK, 16-18 December, 2004, pp. 275-280, ISBN: 1-84233-110-8.

Petrovic, S., Fayad, C., "A Fuzzy Shifting Bottleneck Hybridised with Genetic Algorithm for Real-world Job Shop Scheduling", in: C.H.Antunes, and L.C.Dias, (Eds.), Proceedings of Mini-EURO Conference, Managing Uncertainty in Decision Support Models, MUDSM 2004, Coimbra, Portugal, 22-24 September, 2004, pp 1-6 (on CD), 2004, ISBN: 972-9044-52-X.

Petrovic, D., Duenas, A., Petrovic S., " A multi-objective job shop scheduling problem with linguistically quantified decision functions", C.H.Antunes, and L.C.Dias, (Eds.), Proceedings of Mini-EURO Conference, Managing Uncertainty in Decision Support Models, MUDSM 2004, Coimbra, Portugal, 22-24 September, 2004, pp 1-6 (on CD), 2004, ISBN: 972-9044-52-X.

Burke, E.K., Eckersley, A.J., McCollum, B., Petrovic, S., and Qu, R., "Analysing Similarity in Examination Timetabling" in E.Burke, M.TRick (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2004), Pittsburgh, USA, August 18-20, 2004, pp 89-106, ISBN 0-88748-413-1.

Geiger, M., Petrovic, S., " An Interactive Multicriteria Optimisation Approach to Scheduling", in M.Bramer, and V.Devedzic, (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, 18th IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC), Toulouse, France, August 22-27, 2004, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 475-484, ISBN: 1-4020-8150-2.

Petrovic, S., Geiger, M., "A Fuzzy Scheduling Problem with Dynamic Job Priorities and an Extension to Multiple Criteria", in R.Meredith, G.Shanks, D.Arnott & S.Carlsson, (Eds.), Proceedings of IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) International Conference on Decision Support Systems, Prato, Italy, 1-3 July, 2004, pp. 637-646, 2004, ISBN: 0-7326-2269-7.

Petrovic S., Song X. "A new approach to two-machine flow shop problem with uncertain processing time", in B.Ayyub, N.Attoh-Okine (Eds.) Fourth International Symposium on Uncertainty, Modeling and Analysis - ISUMA, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, Sept 21-24 2003, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 110-115.

Burke,E. Eckersley,A., McCollum,B., Petrovic,S. and Qu,R. “Using Simulated Annealing to Study Behaviour of Various Exam Timetabling Data Sets”, Proceedings of the 5th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2003 ), Kyoto Japan, August 25-28, 2003, paper MIC03 09.

Ouelhadj, D. Cowling, P. and Petrovic, S. "Utility and Stability Measures for Agent-Based Dynamic Scheduling of Steel Continuous Casting" in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA2003), Taipei, Taiwan, 2003, pp. 175-180.
The paper was selected in the IEEE ICRA2003 Finalist for Best Student Award

Burke, E., Eckersley, A., McCollum, B., Petrovic, S., Qu, R. "Similarity Measures for Exam Timetabling Problems", in G.Kendall, E.Burke, S.Petrovic (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003), Nottingham, 13-16 August 2003, pp. 120-136.

Petrovic, S., Beddoe, G., Vanden Berghe, G., "Storing and adapting repair experiences in personnel rostering", in E.Burke, P. De Causmaecker (Eds.) Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2740, Springer 2003, pp. 149-166.

Petrovic, S., Bykov, Y., "A Multiobjective Optimisation Technique for Exam Timetabling Based on Trajectories", in E.Burke, P. De Causmaecker (Eds.) Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2740, Springer 2003, pp. 179-192.

Burke, E., MacCarthy, B., Petrovic, S., Qu, R. "Knowledge Discovery in a Hyper-Heuristic Using Case-Based Reasoning for Course Timetabling", in E.Burke, P. De Causmaecker (Eds.) Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2740, Springer 2003, pp. 276-287.
The paper also appears in the . Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling - PATAT 2002, Gent, Belgium, 21-23 August 2002, pp. 90-103.

Burke, E., Petrovic, S., Qu, R., "Case-Based Heuristic Selection for Examination Timetabling" Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning - SEAL'02, Singapore, November 18-22, 2002, pp. 277-281, ISBN: 981-04-7523-3

Petrovic, S., Qu, R., "Case-Based Reasoning as a Heuristic Selector in a Hyper-Heuristic for Course Timetabling Problems" Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems and Applied Technologies, KES'02, Volume 82., Milan, Italy, September 16-18, 2002, pp. 336-340.

Petrovic, S., Kendall, G., Yang, Y., "A Tabu Search Approach for Graph-Structured Case Retrieval", in T.Vidal, P.Liberatore (Eds.) Proceedings of the STarting Artificial Intelligence Researchers Symposium STAIRS 2002, IOS Press, Lyon, France, July 22-23, 2002, pp. 55-64.

Burke, E., De Causmaecker, P., Petrovic, S., Vanden Berghe, G., "A Multicriteria Meta-heuristic Approach to Nurse Rostering", Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Congress on Evolutionary Computation - CEC, Honolulu Hawaii, USA, May 12-17, 2002. IEEE Catalog Number 02TH8600C, ISBN: 0-7803-7283-2.

Cowling, P., Ouelhadj, D., Petrovic, S., "A Multi-Agent Architecture for Integrated Dynamic Scheduling in Steel Production", Proceedings of the Third International ICSC World Manufacturing Congress 2001 (WMC2001), Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA, 24-27th September 2001, pp. 104-111.

Burke, E., MacCarthy, B., Petrovic, S.Qu, R. "Case-Based Reasoning in Course Timetabling: An Attribute Graph Approach", D.W. Aha, I.Watson and Q. Yang, (Eds.). Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2080, Springer, 2001, pp. 90-104..

Burke, E., Cowling, P., Landa Silva J.D., Petrovic, S. "On the Performance of Population-Based Metaheuristics for the Space Allocation Problem", Proceedings of the Metaheuristics International Conference - MIC 2001, Porto, Portugal, July 16-20, 2001, pages 579-583.

Burke, E., De Causmaecker, P., Petrovic, S., Vanden Berghe, G., "Variable Neighbourhood Search for Nurse Rostering Problems", Proceedings of the, Metaheuristics International Conference - MIC 2001, Porto, Portugal, July 16-20, 2001, pages 755-760.

Burke, E., Cowling, P., Landa Silvia, J.D., Petrovic, S., "Combining Hybrid Metaheuristic and Populations for the Multiobjective Optimisation of Space Allocation Problems", Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 2001, San Francisco, July 7-11, 2001, Morgan Kaufmann, 1252-1259.

Burke, E., Bykov, Y., Petrovic, S. "A Multicriteria Approach to Examination Timetabling", E.Burke, W.Erben (eds.), Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2079, Springer 2001, pp. 118-131.

Burke, E., Cowling, P., Landa Silvia, J.D., Petrovic, S., "Combining Hybrid Metaheuristic and Populations for the Multiobjective Optimisation of Space Allocation Problems", Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 2001 , San Francisco, July 7-11, 2001, Morgan Kaufmann, pages 1252-1259.

Burke, E., De Causmaecker, P., Petrovic, Vanden Berghe, G., "Fitness Evaluation for Nurse Scheduling Problems", Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation - CEC, Seoul, Korea, May 27-29, 2001, 1139-1146.

Cowling, P., Ouelhadj, D., Petrovic, S., “Multi-Agent Systems for Dynamic Scheduling”, in: Max Garagnani (ed) Proceedings of the Nineteenth Workshop of the UK, Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PLANSIG 2000), The Open University, UK, 14-15th December 2000, 45-54.

Burke, E., Petrovic, S., "A Vision of the Future of Automated Timetabling" Semi-plenary sessions - extended abstracts, 17th European Conference on Operational Research, EURO XVII, Budapest, Hungary, July 16-19, 2000, 25-27.

Petrovic, S., "Classification of Objects Based on Case-Based Reasoning", in: R.Petrovic, D.Radojevic (eds.) Proceedings of SYM-OP-IS'98, XXV Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Herceg Novi, September 21-24, 1998, 159-162.

Petrovic, S., "Selection of a Multicriteria Analysis Method Using Case-Based Reasoning", in: J.Cvijanovic, J.Vuleta (eds.) Proceedings of SYM-OP-IS '97, XXIV Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Becici, October, 7-10 1997, 799-802.

Radojevic,D., Radenovic,D., Djurdjevic,P., Petrovic,S., "Fuzzy Group Decision Support System for Multicriteria Ranking - "FUZZYGMCDM" ", International Panel Conference on Soft and Intelligent Computing, Budapest, Hungary, 7-10 October 1996, 241-246, published by Technical University of Budapest, ISBN 963 420 510 0

Petrovic, S., Obradovic, I., "Case-Based Reasoning in the Dichotomy Classification Problems", in: T.Zecevic, M.Tourki, M.Backovic, (eds.) Proceedings of SYM-OP-IS '96, XXIII Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Zlatibor, October 1-5, 1996, 116-119.

Radojevic,D., Radenovic,D., Djurdjevic,P., Petrovic,S., "FUZZYMCDM" Decision Support System for Multicriteria Ranking Based on Fuzzy Approach", EUFIT '96, Aachen, Septembar 2-5, 1996, 1340-1344.

Obradovic, I., Petrovic, S., "Case-Based Reasoning in Cooperative Intelligent Systems", in: D.Herceg, Lj.Cvetkovic, (eds.) Prim '95, X Conference on Applied Mathematics, Budva, 29-31.5.1995, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, and Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 1996, 247-254.

Petrovic, S., Radojevic, D., "Fuzzification of Preference Structure in Promethee Multicriteria Ranking Method", Proceedings of the 3rd Balkan Conference on Operational Research, B.Papathanassiou, K.Paparrizos (eds.), Thessaloniki, Greece, 16-19 October 1995, 36-50.

Obradovic, I., Petrovic, S., "A Cooperative Knowledge-Based System for Multi-Criteria Decision Making", Proceedings of the 3rd Balkan Conference on Operational Research, B.Papathanassiou, K.Paparrizos (eds.) Thessaloniki, Greece, 16-19 October 1995, 780-793.

Petrovic, S., Obradovic, I., "Case-Based Reasoning Systems", in: S.Vujic, (eds.) Proceedings of SYM-OP-IS '95, XXII Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Donji Milanovac, October 3-7, 1995, 121-124.

Petrovic, S., Petrovic, R., Radojevic, D., "An Approach to Using Fuzzy Logic in Multicriteria Ranking", in: J.Djordjevic, S.Stankovic, (eds.), Proceedings of XXXIX Yugoslav Conference ETRAN, Zlatibor, June 6-9, 1995, 342-345.

Petrovic, R., Petrovic, S., "Multiattribute Ranking of Elements in a Finite Set in the Presence of Uncertainty", in: D.Herceg, Lj.Cvetkovic, (eds.) Prim '94, IX Conference on Applied Mathematics, Budva, 30.5-1.6.1994, Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 1995, 357-363.

Petrovic, S., Obradovic, I., "Object-Oriented Approach to the Blackboard Architecture Based on Formal Specification", in: J.Petric, M.Cangalovic, M.Martic, (eds.) Proceedings of SYM-OP-IS'94, XXI Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Kotor, October 4-7, 1994, 83-86.

Obradovic, I., Petrovic, S., "Cooperative Problem Solving: A New Approach to Intelligent Systems", in: J.Petric, M.Cangalovic, M.Martic, (eds.) Proceedings of SYM-OP-IS '94, XXI Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Kotor, October 4-7, 1994, 99-102.

Petrovic, S., Petrovic, R., "Multicriteria Loading of the Thermal Generating Units in a Power System", Proceedings of the 2nd Balkan Conference on Operational Research, B.Papathanassiou, K.Paparrizos (eds.), Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-21 October 1993, 64-78.

Petrovic, S., Petrovic, R., "Multicriteria Loading of Thermal Power Generators", Proceedings of SYM-OP-IS '93, XX Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Beograd, October 5-8, 1993, 395-398.

Obradovic, I., Krtolica, R., Petrovic, S., Radojevic, D., "An Opportunistic Reasoning Approach to Intelligent Time-Series Modeling", R.Hanus, P.Kool and S.Tzafestas (eds.), Mathematical and Intelligent Models in System Simulation, J.C.Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Co., IMACS, 1991, 331-336.

Petrovic, S., Obradovic, I., Krtolica, R., Radojevic, D., "An Opportunistic Reasoning Approach to Filter Selection", Proceedings of SYM-OP-IS '90, XVII Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Dubrovnik, Kupari, October 9-12, 1990, 89-92.

Obradovic, I., Krtolica, R., Petrovic, S., Radojevic, D., "A Blackboard Approach to Problem-solving Strategies in Filter Selection", Proceedings of the 12 th International Symposium Computer at the University, Cavtat, 11-15 June 1990., 8.5.1-8.5.6.

Obradovic, I., Krtolica, R., Petrovic, S., Radojevic, D., "Frame-Based Blackboard Architecture in FILTEX System", XXXIV Yugoslav Conference ETAN, Zagreb, June 4-8, 1990.

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